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Letter "I" » imprison
«The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Injustice,
Voting
| Keywords:
breaking, destroying, devised, devises, devising, imprison
«In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.»
Author: Michelangelo
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
apparition, apparitions, block, hew, hewing, imprison, lovely, reveal, rough, shaped, stood, walls
«If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.»
«Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you»
«You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.»
«Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| Keywords:
atomic, atomic power, harness, imprison, rays, released, rising tide
«What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.»
«Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
abhorrent, imprison, unpopular
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